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that the traveller is obliged to depend on the country he 

 passes through, for that article, as well as for provisions. 

 Ammunition, useful iron-work, some tobacco, a few knives, 

 and other indispensable articles, make a sufficient load for any 

 one to carry that is going a journey likely to last twenty 

 months, or two years. As that was the case, I only took the 

 shirt and clothes I then had on, one spare coat, a pair of 

 drawers, and as much cloth as would make me two or three 

 pair of Indian stockings, which, together with a blanket for 

 bedding, composed the whole of my stock of clothing. 



